Perioperative Evaluation and Surgical Management of a Patient With a Pericardial Hemangioma Abutting the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract and Main Pulmonary Artery

PRIMARY CARDIAC TUMORS are extremely rare, and their overall incidence ranges from 0.001% to 0.03%.1 Cardiac hemangiomas are a rare subcategory of cardiac tumors and account for 2.8% of all benign cardiac masses.2 A subclass of hemangiomas, known as pericardial hemangiomas, are even more uncommon with no clear incidence reported in the literature; they were first reported in the literature in 1950.3 Pericardial hemangiomas may present with various generalized symptoms, ranging from cough and/or dyspnea to more cardiac-specific symptoms such as palpitations and atypical chest pain.

Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - May 25, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tulsi Akikwala, Dhaval Trivedi, Gary Kochamba, Kartik Kansagra, Sreevathsan Sridhar, Andrew G. Rudikoff, Antonio Hernandez Conte Tags: Case Report Source Type: research